HT3775 My Quicktime Player says that it can't play .mov files...

has anyone else experienced this or do you have any suggestions to remedy the situation?

I'm sorry, I should have included
"and I actually need to use the .mov because I'm currently working on a film collaboration project, I'm an audio student, and compressing it into a different file type (particularly mp4) messes up the frame rate and thus destroys the timing of all of the audio I have already programed to match the final video format."
but I guess I didn't feel the need ...
anyhow, it turns out my particular quicktime will record and export .mov files which it will also read, and I've used this specific .mov file on another computer both in Pro Tools and in Quicktime, so it's a my comp specific seeming problem which makes me wonder if there is A) something wrong with my quicktime or B) a setting somewhere that I'm not finding.
Unfortunately the Google search I did proved a bit fruitless.

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